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Category Archives: Economics and the like
Cartoon: Self-Made Billionaire
This feels like a very old-fashioned lefty cartoon to me; it’s super-didactic, reliant on labels, has no real punchline, and it’s less about telling a joke then it is about trying to illustrate a basic principal of lefty economics. Other … Continue reading
Cartoon: 5 Things Congress Says When It Plans To Cut Social Security | Patreon
Drawing five random characters (or semi-random, in this case, since they all had to be plausibly the sort of person who could be in Congress and seeking to cut Social Security) is always fun. In this case, to make them … Continue reading
Comic: The Debt Ceiling Hostage Crisis
If you like these cartoons, and if you’re inclined to, and if you have the money, and if doing so wouldn’t break any religious rules or local laws, you can support my Patreon. I make a living from lots of … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Economics and the like, Elections and politics
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Cartoon: Kids Today Are So Lazy
If you like these cartoons, then you’re a terrible terrible person and you should definitely consider a mountain retreat to work on your spiritual size, say five to eight years of contemplating the pine trees, going barefoot and living only … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Economics and the like, Minimum Wage
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Cartoon: The Right-Winger’s Guide to Labor Economics
For want of a shoe the shoelace was lost. For want of a shoelace the shoefly was lost. For want of a shoefly the flyover states were lost. For want of the flyover states the state of grace was lost. … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., Economics and the like
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Cartoon: What We Can Afford
This comic is by myself and Kevin Moore. Kevin comments: I’ve always found it a crime against society that we spend so much money on our defense budget, when so much of that money goes to the military industrial complex, … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Economics and the like
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Cartoon: I’ve Tried Everything To Find New Workers
If you like my cartoons, please help me make more by supporting my Patreon. I have to admit, this cartoon would have been more current back in May. But on the other hand, employers complaining about lazy workers – and … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Economics and the like
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